Model comparison

Llama 2-7B vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 14B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 14B leads 39.3 to 28.2.

Side by side

Llama 2-7B and Qwen3 14B specifications
Llama 2-7BQwen3 14B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.135.5
Released2023-07-182025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked2912

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
LMArena Coding1002—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Qwen3 14B leads

Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
Chess Puzzles0%4%
Epoch Capabilities Index99.06138.23
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1009—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
BIG-Bench Hard39.2%—
HellaSwag77.2%—
LAMBADA73.3%—
PIQA78.8%—
WinoGrande69.2%—

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LMArena Math1042—
GSM8K16.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert1036—
ARC (AI2) Challenge45.9%—
BoolQ77.9%—
MMLU45.8%—
OpenBookQA58.6%—
TriviaQA73.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
ScienceQA43.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English973—
LMArena Chinese973—
LMArena French970—
LMArena German978—
LMArena Russian995—
LMArena Spanish1007—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1006—

Long Context Qwen3 14B leads

Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query999—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1053—
LMArena Creative Writing1033—
LMArena Multi-Turn1029—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-7B better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-7B or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Qwen3 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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